ENDANGEREDLANGUAGES

K. DAVID HARRISON

Fieldwork: Tuva 2003

Tuvan is my first love and the language I have spent the most time
working on. I lived with nomadic herders in Tuva for nearly a year in
1998, and have returned many times since. I am studying the rich
Tuvan tradition of verbal arts, stories, songs and epic tales, as
well as the sound patterns and grammatical structures of the
language. My doctoral dissertation, written at Yale University,
explored the phonology and morphology of Tuvan.